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Is it Gay to Send Flowers to a Guy?

May 1, 05

The first of the month always offers a unique view of why people reach my site. This difficult question was among the top twenty search phrases of today, May 1st. I’m assuming that the questioner is a guy as well.

What’s the answer? A little, I guess. I’m trying to imagine circumstances in which I would send flowers to a male friend or colleague. Aside from several cruel pranks I can invisage, I can’t think of any.

11 Responses to “Is it Gay to Send Flowers to a Guy?”

1. I used to eagerly look at how people were searching when I had my first blog up (as I live the questions, now down). I realized that, at least in my case, I was becoming a little too obsessed with traffic stats. I’m glad I don’t bother with my new blog.

2. OK I’m gay so this is probably not an objective answer. But of course there are circumstances where it is perfectly acceptable for a straight man to send flowers to another straight man. For example, perhaps the second man has just opened a new business, and the first man wants to congratulate him in a way that makes his business look “better”. I’ve seen this in many newly-opened businesses.

Besides, any man who is truly secure in his sexuality won’t give a rat’s ass what other people think if he decides to give a another man flowers. Another example: what if he’s an avid gardener?

Well, if I sent flowers to my dad or brother, than I wouldn’t consider that to be gay. Or for that matter, if a friend was in the hospital or ill or dead. Then, there’s all my cousins and uncles and grandparent. I think these are all safely from being a little gay.

Now, if I send flowers to my boss for no good reason. Then yes, it’s a little gay. But, I there’s no absolutes here. Each situation has its own.

Last, there’s nothing wrong with being gay. This from the mouth of a homophobe.

When would you send flowers to a woman that you weren’t trying to un-pants? Or to a woman you don’t want considering you as an amour? I think the same applies: you don’t send flowers if they may be misconstrued.

However, flowers to relatives, or for deaths and births and hospital stays and business openings: I’ve witnessed unabashed straight man on man flower giving action.

Never red roses, though.

And sending a bouquet of butt-plugs to another man? That, I think, would be ‘gay’.

Flowers just donâ€™t appeal to me, and I would imagine most guys. I like them in the wild, and Iâ€™ll even take pictures of them. But I think it is weird whenever my wife gets some and says that they are for me. There are only 2 reasons women buy you flowers, 1) you are not buying enough of them for her, 2) she needed and excuse to buy flowers for herself. As a guy, with an extended day in the hospital Iâ€™d much rather get one of those game boyâ€™s or hand held video game system or something like that rather than flowers to pass the time.